Welcome back everyone to the Epic Gardening podcast.

This week we have Liz Zorab on the show.

She's a homesteader from the UK and she's the author of Grounded, a gardener's journey

to abundance and self-sufficiency and that is what we're going to start talking about.

And this week is this very first episode with Liz is going to be about her story and

how she started to become self-sufficient.

So welcome to the podcast Liz.

Hello and thank you so much for having me on.

Yeah, of course.

And so we just only recently met and so I think both even for myself and then also everyone

listening, I think it'd be fantastic to have maybe a quick little origin story of how

you came to be where you are.

Okay, that would be, that's really nice, quick, a quick, a quick pricey.

I spent about 20 years or more, most of my career, working with specialist housing charities

and in community development, working with volunteers and about six years ago I became

quite ill.

Realized I was never going to be going back to that working environment and had to find

a way to have some sort of financial input into our family without necessarily leaving

the premises.

And so I made this a rather rash suggestion that I could grow all of our food or the majority

of our food as my financial input into the household.

And so for the last five years I have been developing, creating and now producing a garden

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